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Conversion of carbon dioxide to organic products

  • US 8,663,447 B2
  • Filed: 11/19/2012
  • Issued: 03/04/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An environmentally beneficial method of producing methanol by electrochemical reduction of any available source of carbon dioxide, which comprises:

  • providing a divided electrochemical cell comprising an anode in a first cell compartment and a cathode in a second cell compartment that also contains a catalyst which is one or more of a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic amine selected from the group consisting of a pyrazine, a pyridazine, and a pyrimidine, both compartments containing an aqueous solution of an electrolyte;

    providing carbon dioxide from an existing source into the second cell compartment; and

    electrochemically reducing the carbon dioxide in the second cell compartment to produce methanol.

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